{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/36",
  "legislation_title": "Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracts-applicable-law-act-1990",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Extent.",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by virtue of section 4B(3), this Act extends to Northern Ireland.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) substituted (S.) (17.12.2009) by Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/410), regs. 1(1), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 8(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 3(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 8(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 3(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 wholly in force at 1.4.1991 see s. 7 and S.I. 1991/707, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/36/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:58.710952+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}